re: Josh Hart with 23 points in his Blazers debut

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Curry needed to improve and he has. But his defense wasn't sinking the Warriors and he certainly was not as bad as Ingram or Zion have been

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He was much worse at one point, but the nature of the guard spot, like with Trae or Garland, it’s the easiest position on the court to cover up defensive deficiencies in if that player is elite offensively and as an offensive organizer.

Which is why even moreso with BI, he needs to step up defensively for this project to work. Because it is much, much more difficult to cover up someone like BI that isn’t an elite off the dribble perimeter creator and the nature of his game still requires players like CJ to compliment him and get him in his spots a good chunk of the time. Because there are only a select few guys that cover all your assignments and provide the necessary complimentary creation traits a player like him needs.